Type so good it shames the British.

[deadringrancor]

For those of you who like free fonts, Red Hat has released three of them under an open (as in open source) GPL+font license:
To take a key step toward liberating desktops, Red Hat contracted with Ascender Corp., one of the leading commercial developers of fonts, to develop a set of fonts that are metrically equivalent to the key Microsoft fonts.
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[littletinyfish]

Is this meant for people to expand, or just to avoid licensing fees from Microsoft? Also, what are the copyrights on fonts, if you can duplicate one no problem?

[deadringrancor]

The fonts are free to use and share, but they're also licensable by the font's creators if you're going to be doing things like integrating them into hardware, say a PostScript printer. You can view the GPL if you're more curious.

They're meant to avoid licensing fees from Microsoft.

If I'm using Linux and someone sends me an InDesign document, where fonts are supposed to lay out in a specific way, these fonts will allow me to work with that document without fundamentally fucking up the page layout when I send it back to your Times New Roman-using ass.